You have put up so much work and time into creating your great Ghost Blog. Naturally, you would want to make sure that the content of your Blog is protected. To ensure your Blog's content is safe, you need to backup your Ghost Blog continually.

Ghost Blog root directory

Besides adding normal Blog posts, a blogging platform should have features needed to create static pages such as "About", "Contact", "Terms of Use", etc. There are many other types of static pages that are sometimes required to be added. For example, photographers and designers might want to display their work in a portfolio page.

Create static page in Ghost

Every Blog post that you write and publish using Ghost can be accessed from a URL. Ghost generates URL based on the Title of your Blog post. Let's say the title of one of your posts is "Making still photography more innovative.". By default, Ghost will create its URL by joining the words in the title with dashes.

Custom URL for a new Post in Ghost

One of the common needs of most of the Bloggers is to be able to easily format their Blog posts without requiring much knowledge of HTML. To meet this need, Blogging platforms support WYSIWYG editors of some sort or another, either by default or with the help of plug-ins. WYSIWYG editors assist you in visually editing the HTML for your post.

Ghost Markdown example Bold, Italic, Link, etc.

Nobody wants their Blog post to look like a plain chunk of text. As a Blogger you would naturally want to add images, if not in every, at least in some of your Blog posts.

Image upload area in Preview in Ghost editor

RAR is a file format which is used to compress and archive multiple files together. Let's see one of its use cases. Say, for example, you want to send two PDF ebooks and an MP3 soundtrack to your friend using email.

Open RAR file with Google Drive Viewer

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), as everybody knows, is a popular vector graphics format. Vector graphics are different from raster graphics such as PNG, JPG, etc. When you try to zoom into a raster image, it looses its quality. This is not the case with Vector images, they can be infinitely zoomed in (enlarged) without losing any quality.

Open SVG image with Google Drive Viewer

Databases are all around us. Almost every Blog, Website, E-mail services, E-commerce sites, and Cloud storage system needs a database to store data. Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, Ghost, osCommerce, OwnCloud, to name a few, need a database to store configuration and data.

Run XAMPP control panel; Start Apache and MySQL

In our last tutorial on Node.js in which we dealt with installing Node.js on Windows, we gave step-by-step instructions on the installation process of Node.js. But, we did not show how to write programs in Node.js.

Change directory to C:\mynode in Command Prompt

You have an old video and you want to convert it to audio. Or, you have downloaded a video song from YouTube, but don't know how to convert YouTube video to mp3. To be able to convert videos to mp3 or extract audio from a video using a media player is an added advantage.

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